We only allow one item at a time in the secure reading room. We don’t allow coats, bags etc in this room which must be left in the lockers.

Sometimes if people have requested a huge amount of material (Oliver Sutherland would be a good example) I will leave a trolley with the material directly outside the reading room so that the reader can have easy access to it. They should still only take one item/box at a time into the actual room. This arrangement is the exception rather than the rule.